To: Vaquero
Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake for supporting geocentrism...No. He was burned at the stake for being a Catholic clergyman who held and taught pantheistic views. People keep wanting to make these issues about science. It wasn't the science part... it was the religious heresy (and teaching others heresy) that warranted eradication.
57 posted on
03/18/2014 8:33:22 AM PDT by
pgyanke
(Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
To: pgyanke
“It wasn’t the science part... it was the religious heresy (and teaching others heresy) that warranted eradication.”
Equally disturbing.
85 posted on
03/18/2014 9:45:04 AM PDT by
Fuzz
To: pgyanke; lepton
Still ancient history which is what was my point.
106 posted on
03/18/2014 11:11:21 AM PDT by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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